The monsoon rains… they write prose and poetry through the vast agricultural land of Kerala. For over 15 per cent of the over 34 million population living outside their homeland, the monsoon evokes the most nostalgic ruminations.

A little more than Taiwan in geographical area, the land is garlanded with 44 rivers and the uplands beaded with 42 dams. This wealth of resources were the very ones that threatened to wipe the whole province away from the map of India in mid-August.